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tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/400226778Episode 035 - Jay ClaytonMon, 19 Feb 2018 13:43:57 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-035-jay-clayton
00:40:04Leading LinesnoEpisode 035 - Jay Clayton by Leading LinesEpisode 035 - Jay Clayton by Leading LinesEpisode 035 - Jay Clayton by Leading Linestag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/393306804Episode 034 - Derek Price - Kyle Romero - Terrell TaylorMon, 05 Feb 2018 13:49:38 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-034-derek-price-kyle-romero-terrell-taylor
00:45:08Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we interview the graduate students behind Scholars at Play, a podcast focused on the critical discussion of video games: Derek Price (German), Terrell Taylor (English), and Kyle Romero (History). Stacey Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, talks to the Scholars at Play team about the origin of their podcast, how it intersects with their teaching, and how it is shaping their academic careers. Through Scholars at Play, these graduate students are creating their own path for the kinds of interdisciplinary and digital scholarship they want to practice.
Links
· Scholars at Play, https://soundcloud.com/scholarsatplay
· Derek Price on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Digital_Derek
· Terrell Taylor on Twitter, https://twitter.com/BlackSocrates
· Kyle Romero on Twitter, https://twitter.com/E_Kyle_Romero
· Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, https://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/
· HASTAC, https://www.hastac.org/In this episode, we interview the graduate studen…In this episode, we interview the graduate students behind Scholars at Play, a podcast focused on the critical discussion of video games: Derek Price (German), Terrell Taylor (English), and Kyle Romero (History). Stacey Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, talks to the Scholars at Play team about the origin of their podcast, how it intersects with their teaching, and how it is shaping their academic careers. Through Scholars at Play, these graduate students are creating their own path for the kinds of interdisciplinary and digital scholarship they want to practice.
Links
· Scholars at Play, https://soundcloud.com/scholarsatplay
· Derek Price on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Digital_Derek
· Terrell Taylor on Twitter, https://twitter.com/BlackSocrates
· Kyle Romero on Twitter, https://twitter.com/E_Kyle_Romero
· Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, https://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/
· HASTAC, https://www.hastac.org/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/369127781Episode 033 - D Christopher BrooksMon, 15 Jan 2018 14:00:29 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-033-d-christopher-brooks
00:35:39Leading LinesnoIn our last episode, we talked with astronomy professor Cornelia Lang about how she uses an active learning classroom in her “Big Ideas” course at the University of Iowa. In this episode, we continue talking about active learning classrooms and the roles that technologies play in supporting student learning in these spaces. At the 2017 POD Network conference in Montreal, Derek Bruff interviewed D. Christopher Brooks, director of research at EDUCAUSE, the higher education technology association.
For more on Christopher Brooks and his work, visit the links below.
• D. Christopher Brooks’ EDUCAUSE page, https://members.educause.edu/d-christopher-brooks
• @DCBPhDV2 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/DCBPhDV2
• “A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom,” co-authored by D. Christopher Brooks, https://sty.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=441414
• Active learning classrooms at the University of Minnesota, https://cei.umn.edu/support-services/tutorials/active-learning-classrooms
• SCALE-UP active learning classrooms at North Carolina State, http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/
• TEAL active learning classrooms at MIT, http://web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/teal.html
• Derek Bruff’s photos of learning spaces, https://www.flickr.com/photos/derekbruff/sets/72157630533336504/In our last episode, we talked with astronomy pro…In our last episode, we talked with astronomy professor Cornelia Lang about how she uses an active learning classroom in her “Big Ideas” course at the University of Iowa. In this episode, we continue talking about active learning classrooms and the roles that technologies play in supporting student learning in these spaces. At the 2017 POD Network conference in Montreal, Derek Bruff interviewed D. Christopher Brooks, director of research at EDUCAUSE, the higher education technology association.
For more on Christopher Brooks and his work, visit the links below.
• D. Christopher Brooks’ EDUCAUSE page, https://members.educause.edu/d-christopher-brooks
• @DCBPhDV2 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/DCBPhDV2
• “A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom,” co-authored by D. Christopher Brooks, https://sty.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=441414
• Active learning classrooms at the University of Minnesota, https://cei.umn.edu/support-services/tutorials/active-learning-classrooms
• SCALE-UP active learning classrooms at North Carolina State, http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/
• TEAL active learning classrooms at MIT, http://web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/teal.html
• Derek Bruff’s photos of learning spaces, https://www.flickr.com/photos/derekbruff/sets/72157630533336504/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/369032354Episode 032 - Cornelia LangTue, 02 Jan 2018 13:45:34 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-32-cornelia-lang
00:45:19Leading LinesnoThis month, Leading Lines has a pair of episodes that look at the use of laptops in the classroom. Both episodes blow up the assumption that laptops are for notetaking, and they push back on that transmission model of college teaching. Both episodes explore the use of active learning classrooms, classrooms that are outfitted with a range of educational technologies, from movable furniture to whiteboards to good wifi to AV systems, designed to support active and collaborative learning
In this episode, we talk with Cornelia Lang, associate professor of astronomy at the University of Iowa. Cornelia teaches one of Iowa’s “Big Ideas” courses, which are large-enrollment, interdisciplinary, team-taught courses that satisfy general education requirements. And she teaches this course in one of Iowa’s active learning classrooms. In the interview, she talks about the kinds of hands-on, laptop-enabled activities she engages her students in when she’s got access to the affordances of an active learning classroom.
Links
• Cornelia Lang’s faculty website, http://astro.physics.uiowa.edu/~clang/
• TILE at the University of Iowa, https://its.uiowa.edu/tile
• Big Ideas Courses at the University of Iowa, https://teach.its.uiowa.edu/initiatives/big-ideas-coursesThis month, Leading Lines has a pair of episodes …This month, Leading Lines has a pair of episodes that look at the use of laptops in the classroom. Both episodes blow up the assumption that laptops are for notetaking, and they push back on that transmission model of college teaching. Both episodes explore the use of active learning classrooms, classrooms that are outfitted with a range of educational technologies, from movable furniture to whiteboards to good wifi to AV systems, designed to support active and collaborative learning
In this episode, we talk with Cornelia Lang, associate professor of astronomy at the University of Iowa. Cornelia teaches one of Iowa’s “Big Ideas” courses, which are large-enrollment, interdisciplinary, team-taught courses that satisfy general education requirements. And she teaches this course in one of Iowa’s active learning classrooms. In the interview, she talks about the kinds of hands-on, laptop-enabled activities she engages her students in when she’s got access to the affordances of an active learning classroom.
Links
• Cornelia Lang’s faculty website, http://astro.physics.uiowa.edu/~clang/
• TILE at the University of Iowa, https://its.uiowa.edu/tile
• Big Ideas Courses at the University of Iowa, https://teach.its.uiowa.edu/initiatives/big-ideas-coursestag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/368619617Episode 031 - Casey BoyleMon, 18 Dec 2017 13:41:41 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-031-casey-boyle
00:31:26Leading LinesnoIn this episode, John Sloop, Vanderbilt’s associate provost for digital learning. talks with Casey Doyle, assistant professor of rhetoric and writing and director of the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
John talks with Casey about the work of the Digital Writing and Research Lab and how it is helping students and faculty both produce and think critically about digital and multimodal texts. Casey also talks about his own teaching, particularly his work teaching students to, as he says, “write sound.”
For more on teaching with podcasts, see Episode 27 for our interview with Vanderbilt’s Gilbert Gonzales.
RELATED LINKS
• Casey Boyle’s homepage, http://caseyboyle.net/
• @caseyboyle on Twitter, https://twitter.com/caseyboyle
• Digital Writing & Research Lab at UT-Austin, http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/
• @DWRL on Twitter, https://twitter.com/DWRL
• Writing with Sound course page, http://caseyboyle.net/project/writing-with-sound-rhe-330c/
•In this episode, John Sloop, Vanderbilt’s associa…In this episode, John Sloop, Vanderbilt’s associate provost for digital learning. talks with Casey Doyle, assistant professor of rhetoric and writing and director of the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
John talks with Casey about the work of the Digital Writing and Research Lab and how it is helping students and faculty both produce and think critically about digital and multimodal texts. Casey also talks about his own teaching, particularly his work teaching students to, as he says, “write sound.”
For more on teaching with podcasts, see Episode 27 for our interview with Vanderbilt’s Gilbert Gonzales.
RELATED LINKS
• Casey Boyle’s homepage, http://caseyboyle.net/
• @caseyboyle on Twitter, https://twitter.com/caseyboyle
• Digital Writing & Research Lab at UT-Austin, http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/
• @DWRL on Twitter, https://twitter.com/DWRL
• Writing with Sound course page, http://caseyboyle.net/project/writing-with-sound-rhe-330c/
•tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/357213995Episode 030 - Kelly DoyleMon, 04 Dec 2017 14:04:43 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-030-kelly-doyle
00:17:53Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we have another interview from Open Access Week 2017. Cliff Anderson, associate university librarian for research and learning, talks with Kelly Doyle, Wikipedian in residence for gender equity at the West Virginia University Libraries. Kelly was at Vanderbilt to talk about her work at West Virginia and to assist with a Wikipedia edit-a-thon here on campus. Cliff talks with Kelly Doyle about her rather unique position at West Virginia University, and ways she’s found to help students at West Virginia contribute to Wikipedia and make better use of it in their research.
Links
· Kelly Doyle’s Wikipedia profile, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KellyDoyle
· Kelly Doyle on Twitter, @WiR_at_WVU, https://twitter.com/WiR_at_WVU
· WVU press release about Kelly Doyle’s position, http://wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu/n/2015/11/03/wvu-libraries-hires-wikipedian-in-residence-for-gender-equity.html
· 2007 interview with Vanderbilt’s Michael Bess, https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/cft/2007/12/episode-1-an-interview-with-michael-bess/In this episode, we have another interview from O…In this episode, we have another interview from Open Access Week 2017. Cliff Anderson, associate university librarian for research and learning, talks with Kelly Doyle, Wikipedian in residence for gender equity at the West Virginia University Libraries. Kelly was at Vanderbilt to talk about her work at West Virginia and to assist with a Wikipedia edit-a-thon here on campus. Cliff talks with Kelly Doyle about her rather unique position at West Virginia University, and ways she’s found to help students at West Virginia contribute to Wikipedia and make better use of it in their research.
Links
· Kelly Doyle’s Wikipedia profile, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KellyDoyle
· Kelly Doyle on Twitter, @WiR_at_WVU, https://twitter.com/WiR_at_WVU
· WVU press release about Kelly Doyle’s position, http://wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu/n/2015/11/03/wvu-libraries-hires-wikipedian-in-residence-for-gender-equity.html
· 2007 interview with Vanderbilt’s Michael Bess, https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/cft/2007/12/episode-1-an-interview-with-michael-bess/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/357201059Episode 029 - Nicole AllenMon, 20 Nov 2017 13:50:35 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-029-nicole-allen
00:31:53Leading LinesnoOpen Access Week was October 23-29 of this year. It’s a week promoting open access as the default in
scholarship and research. The Vanderbilt Libraries hosted a number of events for Open Access Week, and one of the speakers they brought in was Nicole Allen, director of open education at SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Melissa Mallon, director of liaison and instruction services at the Vanderbilt Library and a member of the Leading Lines team, sat down with Nicole while she was on campus to talk about Nicole’s work promoting the use of open educational resources in higher education.
Nicole Allen’s SPARC profile, https://sparcopen.org/people/nicole-allen/
@txtbks, Nicole Allen’s Twitter account, https://twitter.com/txtbks
SPARC, https://sparcopen.org/
OpenStax, https://openstax.org/
OpenCon, http://www.opencon2017.org/Open Access Week was October 23-29 of this year. …Open Access Week was October 23-29 of this year. It’s a week promoting open access as the default in
scholarship and research. The Vanderbilt Libraries hosted a number of events for Open Access Week, and one of the speakers they brought in was Nicole Allen, director of open education at SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Melissa Mallon, director of liaison and instruction services at the Vanderbilt Library and a member of the Leading Lines team, sat down with Nicole while she was on campus to talk about Nicole’s work promoting the use of open educational resources in higher education.
Nicole Allen’s SPARC profile, https://sparcopen.org/people/nicole-allen/
@txtbks, Nicole Allen’s Twitter account, https://twitter.com/txtbks
SPARC, https://sparcopen.org/
OpenStax, https://openstax.org/
OpenCon, http://www.opencon2017.org/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/350307283Episode 028 - Akos - LedecziMon, 06 Nov 2017 14:56:01 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-028-akos-ledeczi
00:24:37Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we talk with Akos Ledeczi, professor of computer engineering and senior research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems here at Vanderbilt University. Akos is the lead developer for NetsBlox, a graphical programming language designed to introduce novice programmers from middle school to college to networked programming. Students can use NetsBlox to create simple multiplayer games and to build apps that interface with public data sets.
Akos is interviewed by Cliff Anderson, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning and a member of our Leadings Lines team. Cliff and Akos discuss the past, present, and future of NetsBlox, and explore how graphical programming languages like NetsBlox, Snap!, and Scratch, are changing computer science education.
One terminology note: Akos uses the term blocks-based coding to refer to programming languages like NetsBlox and Scratch in which graphical interfaces allow programmers to drag “blocks” of instructions together to create relatively complex programs.
LINKS
• Akos Ledeczi's faculty profile page - https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/bio/akos-ledeczi
• Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems - www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/
• Graphical programming languages
https://netsblox.org/
https://scratch.mit.edu/
http://snap.berkeley.edu/In this episode, we talk with Akos Ledeczi, profe…In this episode, we talk with Akos Ledeczi, professor of computer engineering and senior research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems here at Vanderbilt University. Akos is the lead developer for NetsBlox, a graphical programming language designed to introduce novice programmers from middle school to college to networked programming. Students can use NetsBlox to create simple multiplayer games and to build apps that interface with public data sets.
Akos is interviewed by Cliff Anderson, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning and a member of our Leadings Lines team. Cliff and Akos discuss the past, present, and future of NetsBlox, and explore how graphical programming languages like NetsBlox, Snap!, and Scratch, are changing computer science education.
One terminology note: Akos uses the term blocks-based coding to refer to programming languages like NetsBlox and Scratch in which graphical interfaces allow programmers to drag “blocks” of instructions together to create relatively complex programs.
LINKS
• Akos Ledeczi's faculty profile page - https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/bio/akos-ledeczi
• Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems - www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/
• Graphical programming languages
https://netsblox.org/
https://scratch.mit.edu/
http://snap.berkeley.edu/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/346295471Episode 027 - Gilbert GonzalesMon, 16 Oct 2017 12:47:56 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/s3-episode-027-gilbert-gonzales
00:36:46Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we talk with Gilbert Gonzales, assistant professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University. He discusses his interest in designing assignments for students that give them opportunities to make a different in the world outside their classroom. One of those assignments was “Health Policy Radio,” a podcast that he and his health policy students created. In the interview, he describes the assignment and the ways it enhanced his students’ learning.
Links
• Health Policy Radio with Gilbert Gonzales, https://soundcloud.com/user-175461561
• Gilbert Gonzales’ faculty page, https://www.vumc.org/health-policy/person/gilbert-gonzales-phd
• @gilbgonzales on Twitter, https://twitter.com/GilbGonzales
• Vanderbilt News story on Gilbert’s University Course, https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/03/06/university-course-students-meet-with-legislators-during-visit-to-general-assembly/
• Course Design Institute at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/cdi/In this episode, we talk with Gilbert Gonzales, a…In this episode, we talk with Gilbert Gonzales, assistant professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University. He discusses his interest in designing assignments for students that give them opportunities to make a different in the world outside their classroom. One of those assignments was “Health Policy Radio,” a podcast that he and his health policy students created. In the interview, he describes the assignment and the ways it enhanced his students’ learning.
Links
• Health Policy Radio with Gilbert Gonzales, https://soundcloud.com/user-175461561
• Gilbert Gonzales’ faculty page, https://www.vumc.org/health-policy/person/gilbert-gonzales-phd
• @gilbgonzales on Twitter, https://twitter.com/GilbGonzales
• Vanderbilt News story on Gilbert’s University Course, https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/03/06/university-course-students-meet-with-legislators-during-visit-to-general-assembly/
• Course Design Institute at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/cdi/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344470740Episode 026 - Maha BaliMon, 02 Oct 2017 13:07:07 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-026-maha-bali
00:32:09Leading LinesnoIn this episode, the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, interviews Maha Bali, associate professor of the practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. Maha is a full-time faculty developer and also teaches educational game design to undergraduates. She’s also very active in educational technology and digital pedagogy discussions online. She and Melissa have a wide-ranging conversation, from faculty development, to critical pedagogy, to digital literacy, to surveillance capitalism, to social media, and more.
Links
• Maha Bali’s faculty page, http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/mahabali
• @Bali_Maha on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha
• Reflecting Allowed, Maha Bali’s blog, https://blog.mahabali.me/
• Maha Bali’s ProfHacker posts, http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/mbali
• Hybrid Pedagogy, http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/
• Virtually Connecting, http://virtuallyconnecting.org/In this episode, the newest member of the Leading…In this episode, the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, interviews Maha Bali, associate professor of the practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. Maha is a full-time faculty developer and also teaches educational game design to undergraduates. She’s also very active in educational technology and digital pedagogy discussions online. She and Melissa have a wide-ranging conversation, from faculty development, to critical pedagogy, to digital literacy, to surveillance capitalism, to social media, and more.
Links
• Maha Bali’s faculty page, http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/mahabali
• @Bali_Maha on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha
• Reflecting Allowed, Maha Bali’s blog, https://blog.mahabali.me/
• Maha Bali’s ProfHacker posts, http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/mbali
• Hybrid Pedagogy, http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/
• Virtually Connecting, http://virtuallyconnecting.org/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/342496358Episode 025 - Elizabeth SelfMon, 18 Sep 2017 12:29:16 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-025-elizabeth-self
00:25:39Leading LinesnoIn this episode we talk with Elizabeth Self, a teacher educator at Vanderbilt University in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. Stacey Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Center for Teaching, talked with Liz about her clinical simulation project, in which preservice teachers role-play with actors the kinds of interactions they might have one day as teachers with students, parents, and colleagues. Liz shares why these simulations are such powerful learning experiences for her students, and the specific ways that technology, particularly video technology, enhances those learning experiences.
Links
• Elizabeth Self’s faculty page, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/elizabethself/
• @elizabethself on Twitter, https://twitter.com/elizabethaself
• “For Preservice Teachers, Lessons on Cultural Sensitivity,” an Education Week story profiling Elizabeth Self’s project, http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/02/17/for-preservice-teachers-lessons-on-cultural-sensitivity.htmlIn this episode we talk with Elizabeth Self, a te…In this episode we talk with Elizabeth Self, a teacher educator at Vanderbilt University in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. Stacey Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Center for Teaching, talked with Liz about her clinical simulation project, in which preservice teachers role-play with actors the kinds of interactions they might have one day as teachers with students, parents, and colleagues. Liz shares why these simulations are such powerful learning experiences for her students, and the specific ways that technology, particularly video technology, enhances those learning experiences.
Links
• Elizabeth Self’s faculty page, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/elizabethself/
• @elizabethself on Twitter, https://twitter.com/elizabethaself
• “For Preservice Teachers, Lessons on Cultural Sensitivity,” an Education Week story profiling Elizabeth Self’s project, http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/02/17/for-preservice-teachers-lessons-on-cultural-sensitivity.htmltag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/340349344Episode 024 - Haerin ShinThu, 31 Aug 2017 19:39:14 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-024-haerin-shin
00:36:49Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we continue exploring one of the themes of this season of Leading Lines: non-traditional assignments. We talk with Haerin (Helen) Shin, assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, who gives her students a choice for final projects: a traditional research paper or a creative, usually digital, project. Helen describes a few examples of digital projects, talks about how she structures and scaffolds these assignments, and explains why these nontraditional assignments help her students achieve her learning objectives.
Links
• Haerin Shin’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/haerin-shin
• The Velveteen Rabbit: Exploring the Boundary Between the Real and the Unreal, by Jung Min Shin, http://jasmine138.wixsite.com/velveteenrabbit
• Seven Yellow Faces: Strangers in a Home Land, by Ellen Q. Wang, http://lnwang95.wixsite.com/seven-yellow-faces
• The Future of Identity Theft, by Miguel Moravec, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cu1pKZJSEedzJLeTBhMXZDVlE/view
• Flipping the Flipped Classroom: The Beauty of Spontaneous and Instantaneous Close Reading, by Haerin Shin, https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1435
• Students as Producers resources from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/students-as-producers/
• Students as Producers presentation by Derek Bruff, https://prezi.com/1cnevevepyjo/jitt-2017-students-as-producers/In this episode, we continue exploring one of the…In this episode, we continue exploring one of the themes of this season of Leading Lines: non-traditional assignments. We talk with Haerin (Helen) Shin, assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, who gives her students a choice for final projects: a traditional research paper or a creative, usually digital, project. Helen describes a few examples of digital projects, talks about how she structures and scaffolds these assignments, and explains why these nontraditional assignments help her students achieve her learning objectives.
Links
• Haerin Shin’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/haerin-shin
• The Velveteen Rabbit: Exploring the Boundary Between the Real and the Unreal, by Jung Min Shin, http://jasmine138.wixsite.com/velveteenrabbit
• Seven Yellow Faces: Strangers in a Home Land, by Ellen Q. Wang, http://lnwang95.wixsite.com/seven-yellow-faces
• The Future of Identity Theft, by Miguel Moravec, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cu1pKZJSEedzJLeTBhMXZDVlE/view
• Flipping the Flipped Classroom: The Beauty of Spontaneous and Instantaneous Close Reading, by Haerin Shin, https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1435
• Students as Producers resources from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/students-as-producers/
• Students as Producers presentation by Derek Bruff, https://prezi.com/1cnevevepyjo/jitt-2017-students-as-producers/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/338461607Episode 023 - Eric SchmalzTue, 22 Aug 2017 14:50:47 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-023-eric-schmalz
00:32:55Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we interview Eric Schmalz, Citizen History Community Manager at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Eric works with the museum’s History Unfolded project. That project aims to investigate what Americans knew about the Holocaust as it was happening during World War II, and how Americans reacted to news of the Holocaust. The museum calls History Unfolded a “citizen history” project, in the style of crowd-sourced citizen science projects like Galaxy Zoo or FoldIt. Regular people are invited to find newspaper articles from the 30s and 40s, either online or at our local libraries, ones that reference the Holocaust, and contribute them to an online database. So far, the project has collected over 8,000 articles!
Eric Schmalz was on Vanderbilt’s campus for the Cultural Heritage at Scale symposium, organized by Vanderbilt and the Council on Library and Information Sciences. He was interviewed by Gayathri Narasimham, associate director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning. There’s a really interesting education angle here, since History Unfolded works with high school teachers and college professors to involve students in the project. Gayathri talks explores that educational angle with Eric in the interview.
Links
• History Unfolded, https://newspapers.ushmm.org/
• Above the Fold, the History Unfolded blog, https://newspapers.ushmm.org/blog/
• @Eric_USHMM on Twitter, http://twitter.com/eric_ushmm
• Cultural Heritage at Scale symposium, http://heritage-at-scale.info/
• Derek Bruff’s 2013 blog post on citizen history and MOOCs, http://derekbruff.org/?p=2579In this episode, we interview Eric Schmalz, Citiz…In this episode, we interview Eric Schmalz, Citizen History Community Manager at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Eric works with the museum’s History Unfolded project. That project aims to investigate what Americans knew about the Holocaust as it was happening during World War II, and how Americans reacted to news of the Holocaust. The museum calls History Unfolded a “citizen history” project, in the style of crowd-sourced citizen science projects like Galaxy Zoo or FoldIt. Regular people are invited to find newspaper articles from the 30s and 40s, either online or at our local libraries, ones that reference the Holocaust, and contribute them to an online database. So far, the project has collected over 8,000 articles!
Eric Schmalz was on Vanderbilt’s campus for the Cultural Heritage at Scale symposium, organized by Vanderbilt and the Council on Library and Information Sciences. He was interviewed by Gayathri Narasimham, associate director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning. There’s a really interesting education angle here, since History Unfolded works with high school teachers and college professors to involve students in the project. Gayathri talks explores that educational angle with Eric in the interview.
Links
• History Unfolded, https://newspapers.ushmm.org/
• Above the Fold, the History Unfolded blog, https://newspapers.ushmm.org/blog/
• @Eric_USHMM on Twitter, http://twitter.com/eric_ushmm
• Cultural Heritage at Scale symposium, http://heritage-at-scale.info/
• Derek Bruff’s 2013 blog post on citizen history and MOOCs, http://derekbruff.org/?p=2579tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/336363844Episode 022 - Humberto GarciaMon, 07 Aug 2017 13:48:50 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-022-humberto-garcia
00:36:14Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we interview Humberto Garcia, associate professor of English at the University of California at Merced. Several years ago while teaching at Vanderbilt, Garcia started experimenting with blogs in his teaching, having students write short blog posts on a common course blog in lieu of the usual reading response papers. Humberto kept experimenting with blogs every semester, trying out creative new ways to use them both outside of class and during class.
In this interview, Humberto talks about his reasons for teaching with blogs, as well as specific strategies he has used over time to integrate out-of-class and in-class learning through blogs. And he describes his experiments with classroom response systems as a way to incorporate student blogging in larger classes.
Links:
• Humberto Garcia's faculty page at UC-Merced, http://ssha.ucmerced.edu/content/humberto-garcia
• English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century course blog, https://english102literaturesurvey.wordpress.com/
• Transnational Encounters with Islam in 18th and 19th Century British Literature course blog, https://transnationalencounterswithislam.wordpress.com/
• William Blake and Enlightenment Media course blog, https://williamblakeandenlightenmentmedia.wordpress.com/
• British Romanticism and India course blog, https://britishromanticismandindia.wordpress.com/In this episode, we interview Humberto Garcia, as…In this episode, we interview Humberto Garcia, associate professor of English at the University of California at Merced. Several years ago while teaching at Vanderbilt, Garcia started experimenting with blogs in his teaching, having students write short blog posts on a common course blog in lieu of the usual reading response papers. Humberto kept experimenting with blogs every semester, trying out creative new ways to use them both outside of class and during class.
In this interview, Humberto talks about his reasons for teaching with blogs, as well as specific strategies he has used over time to integrate out-of-class and in-class learning through blogs. And he describes his experiments with classroom response systems as a way to incorporate student blogging in larger classes.
Links:
• Humberto Garcia's faculty page at UC-Merced, http://ssha.ucmerced.edu/content/humberto-garcia
• English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century course blog, https://english102literaturesurvey.wordpress.com/
• Transnational Encounters with Islam in 18th and 19th Century British Literature course blog, https://transnationalencounterswithislam.wordpress.com/
• William Blake and Enlightenment Media course blog, https://williamblakeandenlightenmentmedia.wordpress.com/
• British Romanticism and India course blog, https://britishromanticismandindia.wordpress.com/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/330212227Episode 021 - Roundtable with the Leading Lines Team [Bonus Episode]Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:36:28 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-021-conversation-with-the-leading-lines-team-season-one-bonus-episode
00:44:51Leading LinesnoIn this bonus episode, the Leading Lines team sits down for a roundtable discussion about the Leading Lines podcast and what we’ve learned putting the podcast together. We talk about the origin of the podcast, what we mean by “educational technology,” how we’ve used podcasts in our teaching, and a couple of other podcasts we’ve launched since starting Leading Lines. And we have a lot of fun with our standard interview question about analog educational technology.
The conversation was facilitated by the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, Director of Peabody Library and Director of Liaison and Instruction Services at the Vanderbilt University Library. Around the table were the rest of the Leading Lines team: Derek Bruff, Stacey Johnson, and Rhett McDaniel from the Center for Teaching; Cliff Anderson from the University Library; Gayathri Narasimham and Ole Molvig from the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning; and John Sloop, Associate Provost for Digital Learning.
Season 3 of Leading Lines will launch this August. In the meantime, check out Stacey Johnson’s new podcast, We Teach Languages, https://weteachlang.com/, and the new podcast from Gayathri Narasimham and John Sloop, Tenx9 Nashville, https://tenx9nashville.com/podcast/.In this bonus episode, the Leading Lines team sit…In this bonus episode, the Leading Lines team sits down for a roundtable discussion about the Leading Lines podcast and what we’ve learned putting the podcast together. We talk about the origin of the podcast, what we mean by “educational technology,” how we’ve used podcasts in our teaching, and a couple of other podcasts we’ve launched since starting Leading Lines. And we have a lot of fun with our standard interview question about analog educational technology.
The conversation was facilitated by the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, Director of Peabody Library and Director of Liaison and Instruction Services at the Vanderbilt University Library. Around the table were the rest of the Leading Lines team: Derek Bruff, Stacey Johnson, and Rhett McDaniel from the Center for Teaching; Cliff Anderson from the University Library; Gayathri Narasimham and Ole Molvig from the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning; and John Sloop, Associate Provost for Digital Learning.
Season 3 of Leading Lines will launch this August. In the meantime, check out Stacey Johnson’s new podcast, We Teach Languages, https://weteachlang.com/, and the new podcast from Gayathri Narasimham and John Sloop, Tenx9 Nashville, https://tenx9nashville.com/podcast/.tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/325731484Episode 020 - Catherine Loss - Paul Speer - Andrew VanSchaackMon, 05 Jun 2017 13:24:25 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-020-catherine-loss-paul-speer-andrew-vanschaack
00:42:27Leading LinesnoIn this episode of Leading Lines, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning John Sloop interviews three colleagues from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. This fall, Peabody is launching two online graduate programs, a Masters of Education in Human Development Counseling, and a Doctor of Education in Leadership and Learning in Organizations. John talks with three Peabody faculty members involved in the new programs about moving into online education in 2017.
Our guests are Andrew Van Schaack, Principal Senior Lecture in Human & Organizational Development and Associate Dean for Online Programs; Catherine Loss, Assistant Professor of the Practice and Associate Department Chair in Leadership, Policy, and Organization; and Paul Speer, Professor and Chair of Human and Organizational Development. You can read more about Peabody’s new online degree programs by visiting https://peabodyonline.vanderbilt.edu/.
Note that this is our last episode of Season 2. We’ll be back in the fall with more interviews exploring the future of educational technology.In this episode of Leading Lines, Vanderbilt’s As…In this episode of Leading Lines, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning John Sloop interviews three colleagues from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. This fall, Peabody is launching two online graduate programs, a Masters of Education in Human Development Counseling, and a Doctor of Education in Leadership and Learning in Organizations. John talks with three Peabody faculty members involved in the new programs about moving into online education in 2017.
Our guests are Andrew Van Schaack, Principal Senior Lecture in Human & Organizational Development and Associate Dean for Online Programs; Catherine Loss, Assistant Professor of the Practice and Associate Department Chair in Leadership, Policy, and Organization; and Paul Speer, Professor and Chair of Human and Organizational Development. You can read more about Peabody’s new online degree programs by visiting https://peabodyonline.vanderbilt.edu/.
Note that this is our last episode of Season 2. We’ll be back in the fall with more interviews exploring the future of educational technology.tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/322320469Episode 019 - Enoch HaleMon, 15 May 2017 12:44:18 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-019-enoch-hale
00:33:46Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Enoch Hale, Director of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been involved in a variety of innovative teaching and learning projects at VCU, and he has a way of making clear the connection between a piece of technology and the kinds of student learning we might want to foster with that technology. In the interview, Enoch talks about three technologies he’s been experimenting with, in his own teaching and in his faculty development work, and he points to some general principles of teaching with technology.
• @EnochHale10 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/enochhale10
• Enoch Hale’s blog, http://enochhale.blogspot.com/
• Telescopic Text, http://www.telescopictext.org/
• UNIV 200 Course Description, http://www.telescopictext.org/text/C3vhiMMnA6xtL
• Flipgrid, https://info.flipgrid.com/
• PFF Grid, a FlipGrid site Enoch used with a graduate course on pedagogy, https://flipgrid.com/b75bb61b
• Rethink Your Space, the motherblog for a VCU learning community on learning spaces, https://rampages.us/spaces/
• Digital Timelines, a teaching guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu//cft/guides-sub-pages/digital-timelines/In this episode, we feature an interview with Eno…In this episode, we feature an interview with Enoch Hale, Director of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been involved in a variety of innovative teaching and learning projects at VCU, and he has a way of making clear the connection between a piece of technology and the kinds of student learning we might want to foster with that technology. In the interview, Enoch talks about three technologies he’s been experimenting with, in his own teaching and in his faculty development work, and he points to some general principles of teaching with technology.
• @EnochHale10 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/enochhale10
• Enoch Hale’s blog, http://enochhale.blogspot.com/
• Telescopic Text, http://www.telescopictext.org/
• UNIV 200 Course Description, http://www.telescopictext.org/text/C3vhiMMnA6xtL
• Flipgrid, https://info.flipgrid.com/
• PFF Grid, a FlipGrid site Enoch used with a graduate course on pedagogy, https://flipgrid.com/b75bb61b
• Rethink Your Space, the motherblog for a VCU learning community on learning spaces, https://rampages.us/spaces/
• Digital Timelines, a teaching guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu//cft/guides-sub-pages/digital-timelines/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/319923365Episode 018 - Carwil Bjork-JamesMon, 01 May 2017 12:42:18 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-018-carwill-bjork-james
00:39:40Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we speak with Carwil Bjork-James, assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Bjork-James is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on strategies of grassroots autonomy and disruptive protest in Latin America. He serves on the board of the Wiki Education Foundation, a grant-supported non-profit institution, which supports the use of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in higher education contexts across the United States and Canada.
In the interview, Bjork-James discusses the problem of representation on Wikipedia, ways he has worked with his students to write for Wikipedia, and how he sees his role as a Wikipedian. This episode’s interview is conducted by Gayathri Narasimham, Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning.
Links:
• Carwil Bjork-James’ faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/carwil-bjork-james
• @CarwilBJ on Twitter, https://twitter.com/CarwilBJ
• Wiki Education Foundation, https://wikiedu.org/
• Tim Foster’s interview in Leading Lines Episode 13, http://leadinglinespod.com/episode-013/In this episode, we speak with Carwil Bjork-James…In this episode, we speak with Carwil Bjork-James, assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Bjork-James is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on strategies of grassroots autonomy and disruptive protest in Latin America. He serves on the board of the Wiki Education Foundation, a grant-supported non-profit institution, which supports the use of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in higher education contexts across the United States and Canada.
In the interview, Bjork-James discusses the problem of representation on Wikipedia, ways he has worked with his students to write for Wikipedia, and how he sees his role as a Wikipedian. This episode’s interview is conducted by Gayathri Narasimham, Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning.
Links:
• Carwil Bjork-James’ faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/carwil-bjork-james
• @CarwilBJ on Twitter, https://twitter.com/CarwilBJ
• Wiki Education Foundation, https://wikiedu.org/
• Tim Foster’s interview in Leading Lines Episode 13, http://leadinglinespod.com/episode-013/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/317528881Episode 017 - LaTonya TrotterSat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-017-latonya-trotter
00:29:29Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we speak with LaTonya Trotter, assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. Trotter is a medical sociologist, using ethnographic approaches to study how changes in the medical workplace alter how we think about illness and medical care. She was also a Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, and she thoughtfully selects technologies for use in her teaching that align with the goals she has for her students learning.
Links:
• LaTonya Trotter’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/sociology/bio/latonya-trotter
• Her new faculty profile, https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/10/07/new-faculty-latonya-trotter/
• Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/programs/jftf/
• Teaching with Blogs, a guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-with-blogs/In this episode, we speak with LaTonya Trotter, a…In this episode, we speak with LaTonya Trotter, assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. Trotter is a medical sociologist, using ethnographic approaches to study how changes in the medical workplace alter how we think about illness and medical care. She was also a Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, and she thoughtfully selects technologies for use in her teaching that align with the goals she has for her students learning.
Links:
• LaTonya Trotter’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/sociology/bio/latonya-trotter
• Her new faculty profile, https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/10/07/new-faculty-latonya-trotter/
• Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/programs/jftf/
• Teaching with Blogs, a guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-with-blogs/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/315269684Episode 016 - Jan HolmevikMon, 03 Apr 2017 15:08:21 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-016-jan-holmevik
00:37:38Leading LinesnoIn this episode, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning John Sloop interviews Jan Holmevik, Associate Professor of English and Co-director of the Center of Excellence in Next-Generation Computing and Creativity at Clemson University. Holmevik was instrumental in a recent effort at Clemson University to provide all its students and faculty with access to Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of photography, design, video, and web apps. In the interview, Holmevik talks about what it took to launch this project, both in terms of strategic leadership and faculty development and support, as well as the roles digital literacy has played in higher education in the past.
Links:
Jan Holmevik's faculty page, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/departments/english/faculty-and-staff/facultyBio.html?id=280
@holmevik on Twitter, https://mobile.twitter.com/holmevik
Jan Holmevik's Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/holmevik
More on the Adobe initiative at Clemson, https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/04/26/scaling-up-digital-literacy.aspxIn this episode, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost f…In this episode, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning John Sloop interviews Jan Holmevik, Associate Professor of English and Co-director of the Center of Excellence in Next-Generation Computing and Creativity at Clemson University. Holmevik was instrumental in a recent effort at Clemson University to provide all its students and faculty with access to Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of photography, design, video, and web apps. In the interview, Holmevik talks about what it took to launch this project, both in terms of strategic leadership and faculty development and support, as well as the roles digital literacy has played in higher education in the past.
Links:
Jan Holmevik's faculty page, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/departments/english/faculty-and-staff/facultyBio.html?id=280
@holmevik on Twitter, https://mobile.twitter.com/holmevik
Jan Holmevik's Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/holmevik
More on the Adobe initiative at Clemson, https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/04/26/scaling-up-digital-literacy.aspxtag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/311557528Episode 015 - William PannapackerFri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-015-bill-pannapacker
00:32:29Leading LinesnoIn this episode, Stacey Johnson interviews William Pannapacker, DuMez Professor of English and Senior Director of the Mellon Grand Challenges Presidential Initiative at Hope College in Michigan. Pannapacker is a Walt Whitman scholar, and a proponent and supporter of the digital liberal arts. In the interview, he talks about that work, and the program building he’s done at Hope to enable more faculty to teach with technology. He also talks about his own career and the surprisingly limited role technology plays in his own teaching.
Links:
• William Pannapacker’s faculty page: http://www.hope.edu/directory/people/pannapacker-william/index.html
• @pannapacker on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pannapacker
• Mellon Scholars Program: http://www.hope.edu/academics/mellon-scholars/
• Grand Challenges Presidential Initiative announcement: http://www.hope.edu/news/2016/academics/grant-to-support-faculty-and-students-in-interdisciplinary-exploration-of-grand-challenges.html
• Walt Whitman archive: http://whitmanarchive.org/
• Debates in the Digital Humanities: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/
• Palomino Blackwing: http://palominobrands.com/blackwing/In this episode, Stacey Johnson interviews Willia…In this episode, Stacey Johnson interviews William Pannapacker, DuMez Professor of English and Senior Director of the Mellon Grand Challenges Presidential Initiative at Hope College in Michigan. Pannapacker is a Walt Whitman scholar, and a proponent and supporter of the digital liberal arts. In the interview, he talks about that work, and the program building he’s done at Hope to enable more faculty to teach with technology. He also talks about his own career and the surprisingly limited role technology plays in his own teaching.
Links:
• William Pannapacker’s faculty page: http://www.hope.edu/directory/people/pannapacker-william/index.html
• @pannapacker on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pannapacker
• Mellon Scholars Program: http://www.hope.edu/academics/mellon-scholars/
• Grand Challenges Presidential Initiative announcement: http://www.hope.edu/news/2016/academics/grant-to-support-faculty-and-students-in-interdisciplinary-exploration-of-grand-challenges.html
• Walt Whitman archive: http://whitmanarchive.org/
• Debates in the Digital Humanities: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/
• Palomino Blackwing: http://palominobrands.com/blackwing/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/310573592Episode 014 - Katy BörnerSat, 04 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-014-katy-borner
00:32:57Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we speak with Katy Börner, professor of information science at Indiana University-Bloomington. Dr. Börner is the curator of a traveling exhibit called Places and Spaces: Mapping Science. The exhibit, now in its twelfth year, features print and interactive visualizations capturing science and how science is done. Vanderbilt is hosting the exhibit this spring. Leading Lines host Derek Bruff interviewed Dr. Börner while she was on campus.
Links
• Katy Börner’s faculty page, http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/
• Places and Spaces: Mapping Science, http://scimaps.org/home.html
• Places and Spaces Vanderbilt exhibition, http://vanderbi.lt/izlte
• Student data visualization competition, http://vanderbi.lt/fl99v
• Information Visualization MOOC, http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu/index.html
• Hans Rosling’s 2006 TED Talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen
• Hans Rosling’s 2009 TED Talk, https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_stateIn this episode, we speak with Katy Börner, profe…In this episode, we speak with Katy Börner, professor of information science at Indiana University-Bloomington. Dr. Börner is the curator of a traveling exhibit called Places and Spaces: Mapping Science. The exhibit, now in its twelfth year, features print and interactive visualizations capturing science and how science is done. Vanderbilt is hosting the exhibit this spring. Leading Lines host Derek Bruff interviewed Dr. Börner while she was on campus.
Links
• Katy Börner’s faculty page, http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/
• Places and Spaces: Mapping Science, http://scimaps.org/home.html
• Places and Spaces Vanderbilt exhibition, http://vanderbi.lt/izlte
• Student data visualization competition, http://vanderbi.lt/fl99v
• Information Visualization MOOC, http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu/index.html
• Hans Rosling’s 2006 TED Talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen
• Hans Rosling’s 2009 TED Talk, https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_statetag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/308242290Episode 013 - Tim FosterSat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-013-tim-foster
00:36:48Leading LinesnoThis episode features an interview with Tim Foster, a graduate student in Vanderbilt’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Tim is an active member of the digital humanities community at Vanderbilt, and he has worked at the Center for Teaching, the Center for Second Language Studies, and the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning. Last fall, Tim was on a panel at Vanderbilt that focused on teaching with Wikipedia, where he shared a class project in which he worked with his students to write for the Portuguese language version of Wikipedia. Derek Bruff spoke with Tim about this project, as well as a few of Tim’s other experiments in educational technology.
Links:
• Tim Foster’s graduate student page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/spanish-portuguese/people/bios/?who=76
• @peregrinotim on Twitter, https://twitter.com/peregrinotim
• Nashville’s entry in Portuguese Wikipedia, https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_(Tennessee)
• Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Education Program, https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program
• Wiki Education Foundation, https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/This episode features an interview with Tim Foste…This episode features an interview with Tim Foster, a graduate student in Vanderbilt’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Tim is an active member of the digital humanities community at Vanderbilt, and he has worked at the Center for Teaching, the Center for Second Language Studies, and the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning. Last fall, Tim was on a panel at Vanderbilt that focused on teaching with Wikipedia, where he shared a class project in which he worked with his students to write for the Portuguese language version of Wikipedia. Derek Bruff spoke with Tim about this project, as well as a few of Tim’s other experiments in educational technology.
Links:
• Tim Foster’s graduate student page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/spanish-portuguese/people/bios/?who=76
• @peregrinotim on Twitter, https://twitter.com/peregrinotim
• Nashville’s entry in Portuguese Wikipedia, https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_(Tennessee)
• Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Education Program, https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program
• Wiki Education Foundation, https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/305613271Episode 012 - Cassandra HoriiSat, 04 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-012-cassandra-horii
00:34:57Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Cassandra Horii, Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach at the California Institute for Technology. Leading Lines host Derek Bruff talked with Cassandra about a couple of the edtech projects her center is supporting at Caltech. Both projects involve making student learning visible in interesting ways. Cassandra also shared her “edtech manifesto,” a set of principles for helping instructors make thoughtful use of technology.
Links:
• Cassandra Horii’s staff page: https://www.teachlearn.caltech.edu/about/cassandrahorii
• @cvhorii on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cvhorii
• Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach: https://www.teachlearn.caltech.edu/
• SKIES, a collaborative learning platform developed at Caltech: https://www.skieslearn.com/
• The POD Network: http://podnetwork.org/In this episode, we feature an interview with Cas…In this episode, we feature an interview with Cassandra Horii, Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach at the California Institute for Technology. Leading Lines host Derek Bruff talked with Cassandra about a couple of the edtech projects her center is supporting at Caltech. Both projects involve making student learning visible in interesting ways. Cassandra also shared her “edtech manifesto,” a set of principles for helping instructors make thoughtful use of technology.
Links:
• Cassandra Horii’s staff page: https://www.teachlearn.caltech.edu/about/cassandrahorii
• @cvhorii on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cvhorii
• Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach: https://www.teachlearn.caltech.edu/
• SKIES, a collaborative learning platform developed at Caltech: https://www.skieslearn.com/
• The POD Network: http://podnetwork.org/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/302379277Episode 011 - Kathryn TomasekFri, 13 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-011-kathryn-tomasek
00:28:19Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Kathryn Tomasek, associate professor of history at Wheaton College. Kathryn is interviewed by Cliff Anderson, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at Vanderbilt. Last summer, Cliff met several of Kathryn's undergraduate students at a private seminar that she held in the lead up to the 2016 Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations conference in Krakow, Poland. Kathryn’s work focuses on transcription and mark-up of historical texts, and she and her students are active in TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative.
In the interview, Kathryn discusses her experiences getting started with text encoding, the value of teaching all students how machines talk to each other, and the role that text encoding can play in helping students engage in the kind of close reading that’s critical for historical analysis.
Links:
* Kathryn Tomasek's faculty page: http://wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/profiles/kathryn-tomasek/
* Kathryn Tomasek's website: http://kathryntomasek.org/
* @kathryntomasek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathryntomasek
* Wheaton College Digital History Project: http://wheatoncollege.edu/digital-history-project/
* Encoding Historical Financial Records: http://www.encodinghfrs.org/In this episode, we feature an interview with Kat…In this episode, we feature an interview with Kathryn Tomasek, associate professor of history at Wheaton College. Kathryn is interviewed by Cliff Anderson, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at Vanderbilt. Last summer, Cliff met several of Kathryn's undergraduate students at a private seminar that she held in the lead up to the 2016 Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations conference in Krakow, Poland. Kathryn’s work focuses on transcription and mark-up of historical texts, and she and her students are active in TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative.
In the interview, Kathryn discusses her experiences getting started with text encoding, the value of teaching all students how machines talk to each other, and the role that text encoding can play in helping students engage in the kind of close reading that’s critical for historical analysis.
Links:
* Kathryn Tomasek's faculty page: http://wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/profiles/kathryn-tomasek/
* Kathryn Tomasek's website: http://kathryntomasek.org/
* @kathryntomasek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathryntomasek
* Wheaton College Digital History Project: http://wheatoncollege.edu/digital-history-project/
* Encoding Historical Financial Records: http://www.encodinghfrs.org/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/298219930Episode 010 - Steve BaskaufSun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-010-steve-baskauf
00:32:16Leading LinesnoIn this episode we feature an interview with Steve Baskauf, senior lecturer in biological sciences at Vanderbilt University. Steve coordinates the introductory biological sciences labs, trains and mentors the undergraduate and graduate student teaching assistants for those labs, and designing and assesses inquiry-based lab curricula. However, this interview focuses on another aspect of his work at Vanderbilt: biodiversity informatics. Steve has developed Bioimages, an online image database with over 10,000 annotated plant and ecosystem images, and he has created mobile-friendly tree tours of the Vanderbilt campus. We talked with Steve about the semantic web, linked data, and the challenges and opportunities of creating and using machine-readable datasets.
Links:
• Steve Baskauf’s website, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/
• @baskaufs on Twitter, https://twitter.com/baskaufs
• @vutrees on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/vutrees/
• Vanderbilt Arboretum tree tours, http://vanderbilt.edu/trees/tours/
• Bioimages website, http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
• Linked Data and Semantic Web working group at the Vanderbilt Library, https://heardlibrary.github.io/semantic-web/In this episode we feature an interview with Stev…In this episode we feature an interview with Steve Baskauf, senior lecturer in biological sciences at Vanderbilt University. Steve coordinates the introductory biological sciences labs, trains and mentors the undergraduate and graduate student teaching assistants for those labs, and designing and assesses inquiry-based lab curricula. However, this interview focuses on another aspect of his work at Vanderbilt: biodiversity informatics. Steve has developed Bioimages, an online image database with over 10,000 annotated plant and ecosystem images, and he has created mobile-friendly tree tours of the Vanderbilt campus. We talked with Steve about the semantic web, linked data, and the challenges and opportunities of creating and using machine-readable datasets.
Links:
• Steve Baskauf’s website, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/
• @baskaufs on Twitter, https://twitter.com/baskaufs
• @vutrees on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/vutrees/
• Vanderbilt Arboretum tree tours, http://vanderbilt.edu/trees/tours/
• Bioimages website, http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
• Linked Data and Semantic Web working group at the Vanderbilt Library, https://heardlibrary.github.io/semantic-web/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/295887666Episode 009 - Paul DehayeSat, 03 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-009-paul-dehaye
00:42:29Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with mathematician Paul Dehaye. Dehaye is known as the instructor of a 2014 massive open online course (MOOC) about massive open online courses that was mysteriously cancelled one week in. Dehaye is interviewed by John Sloop, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning, who met Dehaye at an Open edX conference last summer. Dehaye shares his perspective on that 2014 incident, and he comments on the role of for-profit companies in higher education, the future of online education, and the still untapped potential of MOOCs.
Links
• Paul Dehaye’s website, http://paulolivier.dehaye.org/
• Paul Dehaye’s faculty page, http://user.math.uzh.ch/dehaye/
• @podehaye on Twitter, https://twitter.com/podehaye
• “The Mystery of the Missing MOOC” on Inside Higher Ed, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/08/massiveteaching-mystery-captivates-confuses
• Paul Dehaye’s July 4, 2014, blog post about #Massive Teaching, https://old.etherpad-mozilla.org/pr8ZtLXODg
• George Siemens’ July 9, 2019, blog post about #MassiveTeaching, http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2014/07/09/congrats-to-paul-olivier-dehaye-massiveteaching/
• "MOOC Platforms, Surveillance, and Control," Paul DeHaye's essay in the Sept-Oct 2016 issue of Academe, https://www.aaup.org/article/mooc-platforms-surveillance-and-control#.WEc-iX1vncgIn this episode, we feature an interview with mat…In this episode, we feature an interview with mathematician Paul Dehaye. Dehaye is known as the instructor of a 2014 massive open online course (MOOC) about massive open online courses that was mysteriously cancelled one week in. Dehaye is interviewed by John Sloop, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning, who met Dehaye at an Open edX conference last summer. Dehaye shares his perspective on that 2014 incident, and he comments on the role of for-profit companies in higher education, the future of online education, and the still untapped potential of MOOCs.
Links
• Paul Dehaye’s website, http://paulolivier.dehaye.org/
• Paul Dehaye’s faculty page, http://user.math.uzh.ch/dehaye/
• @podehaye on Twitter, https://twitter.com/podehaye
• “The Mystery of the Missing MOOC” on Inside Higher Ed, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/08/massiveteaching-mystery-captivates-confuses
• Paul Dehaye’s July 4, 2014, blog post about #Massive Teaching, https://old.etherpad-mozilla.org/pr8ZtLXODg
• George Siemens’ July 9, 2019, blog post about #MassiveTeaching, http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2014/07/09/congrats-to-paul-olivier-dehaye-massiveteaching/
• "MOOC Platforms, Surveillance, and Control," Paul DeHaye's essay in the Sept-Oct 2016 issue of Academe, https://www.aaup.org/article/mooc-platforms-surveillance-and-control#.WEc-iX1vncgtag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/293662600Episode 008 - Zoe LeBlancSun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-008-zoe-leblanc
00:36:05Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Zoe LeBlanc, a sixth-year doctoral student in history at Vanderbilt University. Zoe studies networks, ideas, and spaces in modern history, and her dissertation examines the role of Cairo, Egypt, as a hub for anti-colonial activism in Africa during the Cold War. Zoe has been a graduate fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, and at the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities. She helped launch a “Conversations on Digital Pedagogy” series at Vanderbilt, and continues to build and enrich the digital humanities community at Vanderbilt and elsewhere. We talked with Zoe about her experiments in digital pedagogy, her approach to using educational technology, and her career path as an aspiring digital historian.
Links
• Zoe LeBlanc’s website, http://zoeleblanc.com/
• @zoe_leblanc on Twitter, https://twitter.com/zoe_leblanc
• HASTAC, https://www.hastac.org/
• HASTAC at Vanderbilt, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanities/hastac-scholars/
• Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanities/
• Twitter in the Classroom, a Conversation on Digital Pedagogy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WwQChezJAIn this episode, we feature an interview with Zoe…In this episode, we feature an interview with Zoe LeBlanc, a sixth-year doctoral student in history at Vanderbilt University. Zoe studies networks, ideas, and spaces in modern history, and her dissertation examines the role of Cairo, Egypt, as a hub for anti-colonial activism in Africa during the Cold War. Zoe has been a graduate fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, and at the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities. She helped launch a “Conversations on Digital Pedagogy” series at Vanderbilt, and continues to build and enrich the digital humanities community at Vanderbilt and elsewhere. We talked with Zoe about her experiments in digital pedagogy, her approach to using educational technology, and her career path as an aspiring digital historian.
Links
• Zoe LeBlanc’s website, http://zoeleblanc.com/
• @zoe_leblanc on Twitter, https://twitter.com/zoe_leblanc
• HASTAC, https://www.hastac.org/
• HASTAC at Vanderbilt, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanities/hastac-scholars/
• Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanities/
• Twitter in the Classroom, a Conversation on Digital Pedagogy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WwQChezJAtag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/290455760Episode 007 - Lynn RameySun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-007-lynn-ramey
00:37:06Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French here at Vanderbilt. She is the author of multiple books and essays, including most recently Black Legacies: ‘Race’ and the European Middle Ages. Lynn is currently engaged in several ambitious digital projects exploring the use of video games and 3D environments as means to explore how societies and cultures have interacted in the past. She recently sat down for a conversation with Ole Molvig, an assistant professor of the History of Science and Technology, and a member of Vanderbilt’s Institute for Digital Learning. The two discuss the challenges of employing complex digital tools in the humanities, these tools’ promise for teaching, research, and outreach, as well as Lynn’s path and experiences in the digital humanities.
Links
• Lynn Ramey’s faculty page: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/lynnramey/
• @lynnramey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynnramey
• Unity game engine: https://unity3d.com/
• Blender 3D creation tool: https://www.blender.org/
• Global Middle Ages Project: http://globalmiddleages.org/
• Virtual Placensia: http://globalmiddleages.org/project/virtual-plasencia
• Voyages of St. Brendan (preview): http://www.discoveriesoftheamericas.org/explorers/brendan-of-clonfort/experience-brendans-world/
• Students as Producers on the Center for Teaching blog: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/students-as-producers/In this episode, we feature an interview with Lyn…In this episode, we feature an interview with Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French here at Vanderbilt. She is the author of multiple books and essays, including most recently Black Legacies: ‘Race’ and the European Middle Ages. Lynn is currently engaged in several ambitious digital projects exploring the use of video games and 3D environments as means to explore how societies and cultures have interacted in the past. She recently sat down for a conversation with Ole Molvig, an assistant professor of the History of Science and Technology, and a member of Vanderbilt’s Institute for Digital Learning. The two discuss the challenges of employing complex digital tools in the humanities, these tools’ promise for teaching, research, and outreach, as well as Lynn’s path and experiences in the digital humanities.
Links
• Lynn Ramey’s faculty page: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/lynnramey/
• @lynnramey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynnramey
• Unity game engine: https://unity3d.com/
• Blender 3D creation tool: https://www.blender.org/
• Global Middle Ages Project: http://globalmiddleages.org/
• Virtual Placensia: http://globalmiddleages.org/project/virtual-plasencia
• Voyages of St. Brendan (preview): http://www.discoveriesoftheamericas.org/explorers/brendan-of-clonfort/experience-brendans-world/
• Students as Producers on the Center for Teaching blog: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/students-as-producers/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/287519785Episode 006 - Suellen Stringer-Hye and Micheal HungerSat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-006-suellen-stringer-hye-and-micheal-hunger
00:35:05Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature two interviews conducted by Cliff Anderson, the Director of Scholarly Communications at the Vanderbilt library. Both interviews focus on Neo4j, an open source platform that can be used to visualize and analyze data and connections among data.
Cliff interviews his Vanderbilt library colleague Suellen Stringer-Hye, Linked Data and Semantic Web Coordinator. Suellen has worked with a number of faculty members and students here at Vanderbilt, helping them use Neo4j in their research. In the interview, she talks about some of those projects and how a database tool like Neo4j can be easier to use than one might think.
In the second interview, Cliff interviews Michael Hunger, who handles developer relations for Neo Technology, the company that has developed Neo4j. Michael shares a few more examples of how Neo4j has been used and how it supports collaborative data visualization and analysis.
Links:
• Suellen Stringer-Hye’s staff page: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/staffmember.php?staff_id=140
• @suellenshye on Twitter: https://twitter.com/suellenshye
• Getting Started with GraphGists: http://heardlibrary.github.io/workshops/edtech/2016/06/01/graphgists.html
• Michael Hunger on the Neo4j community: https://neo4j.com/blog/contributor/michael-hunger/
• @mesirii on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mesirii
• Neo4j GraphGist site: https://neo4j.com/graphgists/In this episode, we feature two interviews conduc…In this episode, we feature two interviews conducted by Cliff Anderson, the Director of Scholarly Communications at the Vanderbilt library. Both interviews focus on Neo4j, an open source platform that can be used to visualize and analyze data and connections among data.
Cliff interviews his Vanderbilt library colleague Suellen Stringer-Hye, Linked Data and Semantic Web Coordinator. Suellen has worked with a number of faculty members and students here at Vanderbilt, helping them use Neo4j in their research. In the interview, she talks about some of those projects and how a database tool like Neo4j can be easier to use than one might think.
In the second interview, Cliff interviews Michael Hunger, who handles developer relations for Neo Technology, the company that has developed Neo4j. Michael shares a few more examples of how Neo4j has been used and how it supports collaborative data visualization and analysis.
Links:
• Suellen Stringer-Hye’s staff page: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/staffmember.php?staff_id=140
• @suellenshye on Twitter: https://twitter.com/suellenshye
• Getting Started with GraphGists: http://heardlibrary.github.io/workshops/edtech/2016/06/01/graphgists.html
• Michael Hunger on the Neo4j community: https://neo4j.com/blog/contributor/michael-hunger/
• @mesirii on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mesirii
• Neo4j GraphGist site: https://neo4j.com/graphgists/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/284183696Episode 005 - Lee Forester and Bill VanPattenSun, 02 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/leading-lines-e005-lee-forester-and-bill-vanpatten
00:35:51Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Lee Forester, Professor of German at Hope College, and Bill VanPatten, Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. Stacey M. Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, sat down with Forester and VanPatten at a language teaching conference last summer. Both faculty members have developed online learning materials, including textbooks, for language instruction, and Stacey’s conversation with the two professors explored ways that instructors use digital textbooks and publisher-provided learning platforms.
As a companion to this podcast episode, Stacey Johnson has created a new teaching guide on working with publisher-provided online platforms, shared as part of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s collection of more than 70 teaching guides on various topics. The new guide features more audio from Lee Forester and Bill VanPatten, as well as other language instructors Stacey interviewed recently.
More on this episode’s guests:
Lee Forester is Professor of German at Hope College, where he teaches all levels of German. He is the co-founder of a small textbook publishing company called Evia Learning, and co-author of three language textbooks: Auf geht's! (beginning German), Weiter geht's! (intermediate German) and Ritmos (beginning Spanish). His research and curricular work focus on effective use of technology, intercultural learning and creating language materials that promote personal transformation for students.
Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at the Michigan State University. He has published seven books, seven edited volumes, six language textbooks (including the movies Sol y viento, Liaisons, and the tele series Destinos), and 120 articles and book chapters. Two of his articles are listed in the top ten citations for articles in Studies in Second Language Acquisition and he has received local and national awards for his research, teaching, leadership, and mentoring. He is a frequently invited speaker within the United States and abroad. He is also the host of a popular podcast on Second Language Acquisition called Tea with BVP.
Links:
• Lee Forester’s faculty page - http://www.hope.edu/directory/people/forester-lee/index.html
• Bill VanPatten’s faculty page - https://sites.google.com/site/bvpsla/
• Tea with BVP, Bill VanPatten’s podcast - http://www.teawithbvp.com/
• @teawithBVP on Twitter - https://twitter.com/teawithbvp
• Principles of Communicative Language Teaching, from the University of Texas - https://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/teacher/03/
• Digital Textbooks: Working with Publisher-Provided Online Platforms, a teaching guide by Stacey M. Johnson - https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/digital-textbooks-working-with-publisher-provided-online-platforms/In this episode, we feature an interview with Lee…In this episode, we feature an interview with Lee Forester, Professor of German at Hope College, and Bill VanPatten, Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. Stacey M. Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, sat down with Forester and VanPatten at a language teaching conference last summer. Both faculty members have developed online learning materials, including textbooks, for language instruction, and Stacey’s conversation with the two professors explored ways that instructors use digital textbooks and publisher-provided learning platforms.
As a companion to this podcast episode, Stacey Johnson has created a new teaching guide on working with publisher-provided online platforms, shared as part of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s collection of more than 70 teaching guides on various topics. The new guide features more audio from Lee Forester and Bill VanPatten, as well as other language instructors Stacey interviewed recently.
More on this episode’s guests:
Lee Forester is Professor of German at Hope College, where he teaches all levels of German. He is the co-founder of a small textbook publishing company called Evia Learning, and co-author of three language textbooks: Auf geht's! (beginning German), Weiter geht's! (intermediate German) and Ritmos (beginning Spanish). His research and curricular work focus on effective use of technology, intercultural learning and creating language materials that promote personal transformation for students.
Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at the Michigan State University. He has published seven books, seven edited volumes, six language textbooks (including the movies Sol y viento, Liaisons, and the tele series Destinos), and 120 articles and book chapters. Two of his articles are listed in the top ten citations for articles in Studies in Second Language Acquisition and he has received local and national awards for his research, teaching, leadership, and mentoring. He is a frequently invited speaker within the United States and abroad. He is also the host of a popular podcast on Second Language Acquisition called Tea with BVP.
Links:
• Lee Forester’s faculty page - http://www.hope.edu/directory/people/forester-lee/index.html
• Bill VanPatten’s faculty page - https://sites.google.com/site/bvpsla/
• Tea with BVP, Bill VanPatten’s podcast - http://www.teawithbvp.com/
• @teawithBVP on Twitter - https://twitter.com/teawithbvp
• Principles of Communicative Language Teaching, from the University of Texas - https://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/teacher/03/
• Digital Textbooks: Working with Publisher-Provided Online Platforms, a teaching guide by Stacey M. Johnson - https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/digital-textbooks-working-with-publisher-provided-online-platforms/tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/283200891Episode 004 - Jeff RiceSun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/leading-lines-e4-jeff-rice
00:39:05Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Jeff Rice, inaugural chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies (WRD) at the University of Kentucky. Rice also holds the Martha B. Reynolds Chair in Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies, and he’s the author of multiple books and essays, including his most recent book, Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer. Rice recently sat down with John Sloop, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning, at the Rhetoric Society of America conference in Atlanta, where the two discussed the mission of “digital studies,” the role of open online education, and the relationship between craft beer and digital communication.
More on Jeff Rice and WRD:
* University of Kentucky faculty profile: https://wrd.as.uky.edu/users/jri236
* Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies at UK: https://wrd.as.uky.edu/
* Yellow Dog, Jeff Rice's blog: http://ydog.net/
* Jeff Rice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drfabulousIn this episode, we feature an interview with Jef…In this episode, we feature an interview with Jeff Rice, inaugural chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies (WRD) at the University of Kentucky. Rice also holds the Martha B. Reynolds Chair in Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies, and he’s the author of multiple books and essays, including his most recent book, Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer. Rice recently sat down with John Sloop, Vanderbilt’s Associate Provost for Digital Learning, at the Rhetoric Society of America conference in Atlanta, where the two discussed the mission of “digital studies,” the role of open online education, and the relationship between craft beer and digital communication.
More on Jeff Rice and WRD:
* University of Kentucky faculty profile: https://wrd.as.uky.edu/users/jri236
* Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies at UK: https://wrd.as.uky.edu/
* Yellow Dog, Jeff Rice's blog: http://ydog.net/
* Jeff Rice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drfabuloustag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/280789020Episode 003 - Mike SharplesSun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/leading-lines-e3-mike-sharples
00:28:30Leading LinesnoIn this episode, we feature an interview with Mike Sharples of the Open University in the United Kingdom. The Open University is a public research university committed to increasing access to college through open admissions and online learning. It’s been around for more than 40 years, and it currently has more than 250,000 enrolled students from the UK and beyond. The Open University also runs FutureLearn, a venture that offers free online courses to the world. Not only does Mike Sharples hold a chair in educational technology at the Open University, but he is also the Academic Lead at FutureLearn. In his interview, he draws on that experience to describe the kind of social, collaborative learning that can happen online when you have hundreds or even thousands of learners.
Sharples is interviewed by Gayathri Narasimham, Associate Director at the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, also known as VIDL. VIDL is, among many other things, Vanderbilt’s production shop for massive open online courses (MOOCs), which is why Gayathri was interested in talking with Mike Sharples about his experience designing and assessing MOOCs.
More on Mike Sharples:
• Open University faculty profile: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ms8679
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/sharplm
• FutureLearn: https://www.futurelearn.com/
In this episode, we feature an interview with Mik…In this episode, we feature an interview with Mike Sharples of the Open University in the United Kingdom. The Open University is a public research university committed to increasing access to college through open admissions and online learning. It’s been around for more than 40 years, and it currently has more than 250,000 enrolled students from the UK and beyond. The Open University also runs FutureLearn, a venture that offers free online courses to the world. Not only does Mike Sharples hold a chair in educational technology at the Open University, but he is also the Academic Lead at FutureLearn. In his interview, he draws on that experience to describe the kind of social, collaborative learning that can happen online when you have hundreds or even thousands of learners.
Sharples is interviewed by Gayathri Narasimham, Associate Director at the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, also known as VIDL. VIDL is, among many other things, Vanderbilt’s production shop for massive open online courses (MOOCs), which is why Gayathri was interested in talking with Mike Sharples about his experience designing and assessing MOOCs.
More on Mike Sharples:
• Open University faculty profile: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ms8679
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/sharplm
• FutureLearn: https://www.futurelearn.com/
tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/277837789Episode 002 - Corbette DoyleSun, 14 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/leading-lines-e2
00:26:18Leading LinesnoWhen we started brainstorming ideas for a new educational technology podcast, we knew we wanted to include Vanderbilt instructors who use technology in innovative ways. We talk to colleagues regularly who impress us, and we wanted to share their ideas and perspectives beyond our own campus.
In this episode, we feature our first Vanderbilt guest, Corbette Doyle. Corbette is a lecturer in organizational leadership in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College of Education and Human Development. She came to Vanderbilt in 2008 after a successful career in the healthcare industry, where she focused on strategic planning, diversity in the workplace, and risk financing. In her interview, she talks about the ways she uses technologies like Google Plus and Poll Everywhere in the service of very intentional teaching objectives, and she reflects on how she approaches adoption of new educational technologies.
More on Corbette Doyle:
Faculty Website - http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/corbette-doyle
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/corbettedoyle
Twitter - https://twitter.com/corbettedoyle
When we started brainstorming ideas for a new edu…When we started brainstorming ideas for a new educational technology podcast, we knew we wanted to include Vanderbilt instructors who use technology in innovative ways. We talk to colleagues regularly who impress us, and we wanted to share their ideas and perspectives beyond our own campus.
In this episode, we feature our first Vanderbilt guest, Corbette Doyle. Corbette is a lecturer in organizational leadership in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College of Education and Human Development. She came to Vanderbilt in 2008 after a successful career in the healthcare industry, where she focused on strategic planning, diversity in the workplace, and risk financing. In her interview, she talks about the ways she uses technologies like Google Plus and Poll Everywhere in the service of very intentional teaching objectives, and she reflects on how she approaches adoption of new educational technologies.
More on Corbette Doyle:
Faculty Website - http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/corbette-doyle
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/corbettedoyle
Twitter - https://twitter.com/corbettedoyle
tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/275488623Episode 001 - George SiemensSun, 31 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/leading-lines-s1e1
00:28:10Leading LinesnoGeorge Siemens is executive director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is an internationally known expert in digital, networked, and open learning. Among his other accomplishments, he co-taught the very first massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) back in 2008. His “connectivist” MOOCs featured peer-to-peer learning through blogs, Twitter, and other platforms. These days, George continues to lead research efforts into MOOCs and other forms of digital learning.
George was on campus at Vanderbilt in the spring to give a talk as part of the Schmidt Family Educational Technologies Lecture series, and he was kind enough to sit down to talk about the present and future of educational technology. We’re honored to have him as our first guest on Leading Lines.
More on George Siemens:
The LINK Research Lab at UT-Arlington: http://linkresearchlab.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gsiemens
Blog: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
George Siemens is executive director of the Learn…George Siemens is executive director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is an internationally known expert in digital, networked, and open learning. Among his other accomplishments, he co-taught the very first massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) back in 2008. His “connectivist” MOOCs featured peer-to-peer learning through blogs, Twitter, and other platforms. These days, George continues to lead research efforts into MOOCs and other forms of digital learning.
George was on campus at Vanderbilt in the spring to give a talk as part of the Schmidt Family Educational Technologies Lecture series, and he was kind enough to sit down to talk about the present and future of educational technology. We’re honored to have him as our first guest on Leading Lines.
More on George Siemens:
The LINK Research Lab at UT-Arlington: http://linkresearchlab.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gsiemens
Blog: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/